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Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman (in science)

amy.r — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:01:03 +0000

Obtaining a senior academic position for any aspiring young academic is one of those uphill struggles with roads lined with self doubt, setbacks and sacrifice. Some call it the way to tenure-track, in my mind it’s one of those ill-defined paths through a potentially haunted forest inhabited with monsters, gigantic poisonous spiders and creepy people who communicate by screaming. It can be harder still to even reach that point, particularly for young women. While the number of women professors in Europe, N. America and Australia has increased over the last decade, universities still have a disproportionately small number of women in senior professorial positions.

While the numbers of female students are high at undergraduate and postgraduate levels (in my undergraduate studies there seemed a 1:3 male to female ratio), the senior academic positions tend to be held by men. This discrepancy is certainly not a question of ability. It sadly appears that a large proportion of talented female students either abandon their career ambitions in favour of a non-academic job, turn down fellowships or accept jobs at less competitive universities allowing a focus on raising children and enjoying family life. Quite simply, it appears that many women in academia lose faith in being able to “have it all

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Reichelt A (2013-01-29 00:01:03). Sometimes it's hard to be a woman (in science). Australian Science. Retrieved: May 02, 2024, from http://australianscience.com.au/women-in-science-2/sometimes-its-hard-to-be-a-woman-in-science/

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Tricks of the mind

amy.r — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 03:36:35 +0000

Have you ever experienced a sudden feeling of familiarity while in a completely new place? Or the feeling you’ve had the exact same conversation with someone before?

This feeling of familiarity is, of course, known as déjà vu (a French term meaning “already seen

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Reichelt A (2013-01-14 03:36:35). Tricks of the mind. Australian Science. Retrieved: May 02, 2024, from http://australianscience.com.au/psychology/tricks-of-the-mind/

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Remembering to forget

amy.r — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:34:16 +0000

Memories influence our behaviour for better or worse. A traumatic incident, experienced once, can darken our lives for ever more. Drug or alcohol addiction – driven by remembered rewards – can render the idea of “normal life

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Reichelt A (2013-01-07 00:34:16). Remembering to forget. Australian Science. Retrieved: May 02, 2024, from http://australianscience.com.au/research-2/remembering-to-forget/

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